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[QUOTE="Flacusian, post: 682494, member: 264"]
I didn't mean to say that it was JB's intended strategy. It's more a factor of the law of unintended consequences. In the end the bottom line is that while we have done very well with recruiting, I agree we are still a notch below some other programs. It is a fact that we end up with fewer of the top elite players in the incoming class and we have to seemingly work harder to get top recruits where some of the other schools make and offer and /bang/ it pretty much happens. The fact that JB does have loyalty to the kids who have worked their way through the program over time results in kids like MCW and Dion having to essentially wait a year where in other situations they may have played/ started immediately.
 
A kid like Wiggins isn't going to wait for anybody. Nor will Whitehead and some of the other top talent being mentioned here. So the flip side of this is, "how many kids have come here and started since day one"? The answer to the question is also the answer to how many of the elite recruits have we had here in the past decade? So my point with the 2 and done thing is it is the approach which is seemingly observed because the type / level of players we have in the program and there are some resultant benefits associated with it.
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